by Peter Scherer
When all look lost for Mickleover Reserves at Linby MW in the Central Midlands League Premier Division South match, two late goals salvaged a point.
An early free kick for the hosts was headed away by Charlie Rock, and there was a good cross shortly afterwards from Owen Parr. Declan Brown managed to connect but there was no power behind his header.
Two successive corners for Linby caused some concern in the Mickleover defence, after bobbling on the grass pitch, but both were headed over.
Josh Maher then punched away another corner, before Harry Atwal cleared the danger, from the wind assisted kick.
Ronnie Bonser was then yellow carded but Maher coped comfortably with the following free kick.
Brown had another shot over the bar but two goals followed for Linby before half time, the second from a long ball over the defence. 2-0.
The second half started with a couple of goal mouth scrambles, but Sports defence cleared it and shortly afterwards Dean Ironmonger was the first of the subs to be used.
Ironmonger got Mickleover back into the game when he got through to find Zac Sandhu, but the home keeper just managed to intercept.
But Ironmonger pulled one goal back when he wrong footed the keeper with a shot outside the box, 1-2.
Leading scorer Brown then got on the scoresheet too, when total confusion in the home defence, saw the ball dropped at his feet, readily accepting his chance, ending the match 2-2.
(Notes and image supplied by Mickleover Reserves twitter).